Do You Know What Concentrated Fish Oil Is?
If you're getting keen to take some Omega 3 capsules because you've read so much about their health giving properties then you've probably come across the term concentrated fish oil? But what is concentrated fish oil?
If you were to catch a fish and squeeze it really hard you'd get oil out of it. That oil contains important Omega 3 fatty acids like DHA and EPA, the 2 most important of the health giving Omega 3 polyunsaturated fats. This is called standard food grade fish oil.
But you wouldn't get stacks of those good fats. Enough to be useful if you ate the fish, but not a lot for a simple 1000 mg capsule.
So what do manufacturers do to overcome this? The use concentrated fish oil. It can be called super concentrated fish oil or highly concentrated fish oil, but it's all the same.
By concentrating the oil you get more DHA and EPA in a small amount of fish oil. And this is good, so you can use it in small 1000 mg fish oil supplements and deliver enough Omega 3 fats.
When you take fish oil and concentrate it then it turns the Omega 3 fats from a triglyceride form into an ethyl ester form, which is ok. It is still good for you and is very "bioavailable" meaning that when you eat it it can still be absorbed into your system.
Some manufacturers turn the ethyl ester form back into a triglyceride form believing that if the oil is in the same form as it came out of the fish then it must be more "natural". But the result is that the triglyceride form resulting has a different molecular makeup and isn't nearly as "bioavailable" as the ethyl ester form. But it's still good for you.
And one manufacturer has responded to this by using a different formulation in it's Omega 3 supplements. It uses a concentrated fish oil from Tuna combined with an unconcentrated fish oil in it's original triglyceride form.
Studies have shown this formulation to be up to 2 1/2 times more effective than traditional concentrated fish oil Omega 3 supplements.
So it's fair to say that most Omega 3 capsules have fish oil concentrate in them. One has both the concentrated form combined with the unconcentrated form to result in a potent mix of Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
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